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For the fourth year, Book Business and Publishing Executive magazines are seeking nominations for their prestigious Publishing Innovator of the Year awards. The nomination deadline is nigh!

The publisher of a database chronicling historical time-zone data is claiming copyright ownership of those facts, and is suing two researchers for re-purposing it in a free-to-use database relied on by millions of computers. The data, which basically spells out past and future times anywhere in the world, is used in Java, Linux, PostgreSQL, Oracle and other programs to assign the correct time based on geographic location.

E-book production challenges are forcing publishers to rethink workflows and reallocate resources to handle creation, conversion and distribution. Experts tell you how.

The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) announces the five new members of the 2011-13 Board of Directors.

Tyson Miller has edited a new book (due out in October) called 'Dream of a Nation: Inspiring Ideas for a Better America.'

Publishing Executive and Book Business magazines, producers of the Publishing Business Conference & Expo, have named Bonnier Corp. and Scholastic Inc. as the Publishing Innovators of the Year.

Enhanced e-books are dead, discoverability is the most important issue facing e-book vendors, while pricing strategies should be measured against other digital content, not physical books.

Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS and NAPCO have announced the speaker lineup for the second annual TH(ink) E-reading 2011 Summit.

Amazon.com today announced that the third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product in Amazon's history, eclipsing "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)." The company also announced that on its peak day, Nov. 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 158 items per second.

Last week, I was fortunate enough to moderate a meeting of the Bookbinder's Guild of New York (now renamed as the Book Industry Guild of New York), billed as "The Changing Role of Production."